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Glastonbury Festival 'open for business' after huge traffic delays

Glastonbury Festival is "fully open for business", organisers say, after traffic jams caused hours of delays and chaos.

Earlier on Wednesday, festivalgoers who had not started their journey to Somerset were advised to "stay put" after "wet weather and ground conditions" resulted in congestion in surrounding roads.

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Glastonbury conditions on site 'not as bad as expected'

The conditions at Glastonbury Festival are not as bad as expected, according to ITV News correspondent Rupert Evelyn.

Earlier on Wednesday, Rupert sent a video update in his car after becoming one of thousands of festival goers stuck in traffic in Somerset.

Avon and Somerset Police have since reopened A303 westbound after an earlier accident and advised people to use alternative routes into the festival - namely the M5 junction 23, or A36 from the M4.

Glastonbury Festivals have said the park is now open, and after arriving at the site, Rupert said: "in the end it wasn't perhaps as bad as we'd expected it to be."

Conditions at the Worthy Farm site are expected to improve later in the week, with Meteorologist Emma Sharples saying temperatures on Sunday could be a "fine and bright with plenty of sunshine".

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